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Not an error, but
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (with nothing added) means the hymn, and there are two cantatas by Bach with this name, and only the well-informed will know by "chorale cantata" that this is
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, and not
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60. I suggest to add , BWV 20, as coded or in brackets (BWV 20). (Why we show this piece not on the First Sunday after Trinity which the blurb mentions, but on the Tuesday after the Second Sunday after Trinity, remains a mystery to me.)
Lilypond new by
DanCherek, recommeded short listening ;) --
Gerda Arendt (
talk) 07:05, 11 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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Haven't been able to check this yet, possible
WP:THURSDAY issue? In monobook, the page layout is broken now, see
example - with the "welcome to wikipedia" being moved, a "," on a line by itself, bad font/size as well. —
xaosfluxTalk 09:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Fixed the comma break by moving the comma in to the h1 element; not seeing that causing breaks on vector or vector22. The h1 styling here seem to be the primary problem now. —
xaosfluxTalk 09:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Seems to be styles associated with the mw-heading1 div around that h1.. —
xaosfluxTalk 10:11, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm seeing the same issue - it looks very ugly. Thanks for looking into this!
Modest Geniustalk 11:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
The gap between Welcome to Wikipedia and "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." is too big on Monobook. The line at the top cuts off the bottom of the P. I suggest you do "Welcome to" in smaller letters at the top and then just Wikipedia in large. "Welcome" looks a bit silly being that big.♦
Dr. Blofeld 11:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Doing... border/margin - waiting for sync. —
xaosfluxTalk 13:24, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Done I'm not sure I love these CSS hacks though. Suggestions for improvement (here or upstream) are more than welcome. —
xaosfluxTalk 13:28, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Specifically I'm not liking that the parser is building the ID from the content and including "," in the element id now. (That is the one thing that will affect all skins). —
xaosfluxTalk 13:31, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Xaosflux Fixing this in Monobook.css was not appropriate (fixing it in
WP:Main Page/styles.css is sufficient), nor was I believe moving the comma necessary. The relevant change is
phab:T363597. It will be coming to the other skins Soon so we will need to fix it for all skins. Please remove the Monobook.css styles and revert your main page change so we can fix this correctly. Monobook being broken for a day or two is not a reason to... hack.
Izno (
talk) 16:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Izno looks like
phab:T363597 is going to be 2 weeks out? Do you have a fix for /styles.css ready to go, in which case certainly we can pull this out of monobook.css. Also, do you know what the "breaking" change # is for reference? —
xaosfluxTalk 17:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I do not have such a change. I'm not going to work on it until you revert yourself. It's a pain to sort things out when you're starting from the wrong state.
Izno (
talk) 17:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
And no, it is definitely live in Monobook.
Izno (
talk) 17:30, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Izno OK, I've restored the broken version - we certainly shouldn't leave this broken for weeks though. —
xaosfluxTalk 17:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I will take care of it today. :)
Izno (
talk) 17:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks! Semantically, not sure about that comma - it is floating between the header and the end of a div that encompasses the header - certainly not a big deal other than the header handling breaking it there. —
xaosfluxTalk 17:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
This is fixed. Padding/margin between the top of the box and the welcome line looks off so that needs some investigation. I'll take a look later to see if that's just my imagination.
The comma is outside for the same reason you felt gross about it being on the inside earlier, except it matters for screen readers. IDK how the comma inside would even sound but it would probably be awkward.
Izno (
talk) 17:40, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I got here from
T363597 – looks like this was resolved in this edit:
[1]. Thanks for fixing it.
Matma Rextalk 18:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)reply